New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 2 - ACUPUNCTURE AND ORIENTAL MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS
Part 19 - EXPANDED PRACTICE CERTIFICATIONS
Section 16.2.19.9 - EXPANDED PRACTICE CERTIFICATION BOARD REQUIREMENTS

A. The board shall have final authority for certification of all applicants.

B. The board shall notify the applicant in writing by mail postmarked no more than thirty (30) days after the receipt of the initial application as to whether the application is complete or incomplete and missing specified application documentation.

C. The board shall notify the applicant in writing by mail postmarked no more than thirty (30) days after the notice of receipt of the complete application sent out by the board, whether the application is approved or denied.

D. If the application is denied, the notice of denial shall state the reason the application was denied.

E. In the interim between regular board meetings the board's chairman or an authorized designee of the board shall approve an expanded practice certification to a qualified applicant who has fled, with the board, a complete application and complied with all requirements for expanded practice certification. The temporary expanded practice certification will be ratified by the board on the date of the next regular board meeting. Final expanded practice certification shall only be granted by the board.

F. the board shall maintain a list of each doctor of oriental medicine who is certified for each expanded practice category and shall notify the New Mexico board of pharmacy of all such certified licensees;

G. The board shall have the authority to deny, suspend, revoke or otherwise discipline an expanded practice certification, in accordance with the Uniform Licensing Act, 61-1-1 to 61-1-31 NMSA 1978, for reasons authorized in the act and clarified in 16.2.12 NMAC.